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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
COURTING IN THE COUNTRY,
Winter SOcials-Biiss in Buggy Happy
Days Lang Syne,

Let me tell you something about cold
weather sports" says writer in the Lam
caster pa Examiner, cor at least what |
know of them when a boy, something less
than half I century ago"
The summer ends in the country with a
harvest home picnic, where the dances
may not show the grace of an Estarhazy,
but certainly have John l.. Sullivan
touch in the point of vigor when You
swing corners" Why. a good buxom
girl Of my timid days-if she got hold Of
modern cigarette dude and swung cor
ners with him he would have been flung
out of the window at the end of the circle
with the mathematical accuracy with
which she would throw dishrag at the
old cat stealing pups milk In time the
corn was in and the fodder stacked for
winter provender. The fields were bare,
and chill Novembers surly blasts suggested
the warm stove and indoor life Next ap-
peared the singing school, with some Ich-
abod Crane for teacher. do not think
anybody learned much music at these
schools, but oh what fun. Think of the
coyness Of Il rosy-cheeked miss and the first
promptings of the gentle feeling as you
snuggled" close together in the not too
wide buggy seat, under the bright stars
and inspired by the crispness of the frost
burdened air, My old friend, and | have
gone from many singing school and
chose the road with the most bridges, claim
ing the penalty of crossing-a kiss. The
longest way was the nearest home. We
drove gentle horse, too, and could guide
him with one hand or let him take his
own way with the lines over the dasher.
The dudes in our day want a $50 stopper.
Had we not, my venerable friend, more
fun with old Fox, the church-going horse
of sedate movement, who did not care for
time so that he got home? Then came
the lyceum and spelling school, The same
thing to go through. The same girl may
be, the same understanding and Presbyte-
rian-minded horse and the same bridges.
Old boy, we were young then, and good,
too, for the blush of the teens was upon us
and kiss was as holy rs sacred shrine.
You may be an old sinner now, and it may
be prayer to you to look back when the
stars blinked down in chaste smile, as
you came from some entertainment in a
country school-house, and looked sweet
kindness into the innocent eyes of your
first admiration.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
How Seeds are Formed.

At a recent meeting of the American
Florists, Mr.. Thorpe was asked to illustrate
the method of cross-fertilization, and COM
piled, gathering some gladiolus, begonia
and abutilon blossoms from the show
plants to illustrate. He explained that
some flowers had both stamens and pistils.
The stamens were the little stalks within
the flower that bore the fine dust called
pollen. The pistil is a slender stalk, which
is slightly sticky on the end, to which the
pollen adheres when busted on by the
wind, carried by insects or applied artifi-
cially with Il brush. The application of
pollen at the right time results in its fruc-
LITIGATION of bloom, and the growth of seed.
Illustrating artificial Decentralization,
Mr.. T. took gladiolus bloom, cut away
the stamens, and then selecting bloom
of different color, cut off some stamens
and rubbed them over the stigma
of the flower first deprived of its stamens.
He showed how the flowers of the begonia
differed On the same plant, some having
only the female organ (the pistil) and
others the male organs and stamens. In
this case cross-fertilization consisted of
rubbing one flower upon another of the
opposite sex, and then protecting the fertil-
lied bloom from the access of insects that
might bring pollen from another flower to
mix with it. He illustrated curious
methods of nature in fertilizing the abutilon,
which belongs to the mallow family. The
stamens, as he showed, were in a clump at
the end of the tube that incloses the pistil
The smooth sides of the bell-shaped flow
ers hanging down precluded much help
from insects, and so it was arranged that
during the twenty-four hours, when the
flower is capable of impregnation, the
pistils rapidly grow out through the bunch
of stamens and are smeared with fertilzing
duct
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
A Japanese Chemists shop.

The quaint old man whose loyal adher-
ence to the customs of his ancestors af-
forded me such an interesting illustration
both OF old Japan and old Britain was a
seller of curoyakie-i e., carbonized ami
mails in other words, animals reduced to
charcoal, and potted in small covered lars
of earthenware, to be sold as medicine for
the sick and suffering. Formerly all these
animals were kept alive in the back prem
lses, and customers selected the creature
for themselves, and stood by to sec it killed
and burned on the spot, so that there could
be no deception, and no doubt as to the
freshness of charred medicine. Doubtless
some insensible foreign influence may ac-
count for the disappearance of the me-
nagerie of waiting victims and their Gre
nation ground now the geological back
yard had vanished, and only the strange
chemists shop remains, like well-stored
museum, wherein are ranged portions of the
dried carcasses of dogs and deer, foxes and
badgers, rats and mice, toads and frogs.
tigers and elephants. The rarer the ami
NAL, and the further it has Travelled, the
more precious apparently are its virtues
From the roof hung festoons of gigantic
snake skins, which certainly were foreign
importations from some land where pyth-
ons flourish, Japan being happily exempt
from the presence of such beautiful mon
sters. l saw one very fine piece of a skin,
which, though badly dried and much
shrunken, measured twenty-six inches
across, but it was only fragment ten feet
in length, and was being gradually con-
sumed, inch by inch, to lend mystic virtue
to compounds of many strange ingredi-
ents. was told that the perfect skin
must have measured very nearly fifty feet
in length. | saw another fragment TWEEN
ty-two feet long and twelve inches wide;
this also had evidently shrunk considera-
bly, in drying, and must, when in life, have
been very fine specimen.-PopaLar Science
NontbJy
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Improving Farm Methods.

Orange Judd, in the Prairie Farmer.
says he believes we can feed hogs more
profitably by rational methods than by the
unscientifc and shiftless ways now only too
common. First of all, we must see to il
that breeding sows are fed proper ration
in which protein compounds form liberal
share. The young pigs must likewise have
a goodly allowance of protein, while the
mature hogs, when fattening, can be fed
large proportion of carbohy drates, espe-
cially if we make a large proportion of
lard. The food articles at our command
which are rich in protein are skim-milk,
buttermilk, shorts, bran, peas, green clover
and the like. No farmer can afford to
manage his farm with minimum of these
matchmaking foods. They should be
supplied abundantly, and at reasonable
cost, if we win only study to do so. Shall
We raise less corn, then? Not at all. The
corn crop is the best of all we raised, and
let the word be more rather than less.
We need it all, but we must not forget
that protein is somewhat lacking in corn.
We may compare our corn to the brick
which go into building, and the protein
foods to the mortar which cements the
brick together. He who would lay up
brick without mortar builds foolishlv.
and his house will tumble. Breed
ing sows should have only a small
allowance of corn, the feed being mainly
that which viii go to give their young good
sound bodies. Such feed would be shorts
(middlings or shipstufi1, bran, skim-milk
buttermilk and clover, When sucking
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The Wfckedest Place.

A rather old fashioned but very sincere
and devout Christian minister, whose life
has been devoted to ministering to the
spiritual wants of smaller and perhaps bet
ter communities than Chicago, recently
made Rev. c. NJ. Morton, the evangelist, a
visit. He saw great many things in the
city, particularly on the Sabbath, that
shocked his sense of propriety and moral
ity, but he was assured that all great cities
contained large numbers of goddess people,
and that Chicago was no worse than a
dozen other places east or west of us. He
was too well-bred to question the word of
his host, but became thoroughly convinced
that since the destruction of Sodom the
world had never seen such a wicked city.
His righteous indignation finally reached
the point of explosion when he read an
item in the paper in regard to the WON
ans Exchange. Is it true that there is
a Woman's Exchange in Chicago" he
asked Of Mr.. Morton. That gentleman
saw from the excitement of his guest that
he Inexperienced the use of that worthy
institution, but he did not undeeeive him
believe there IS" he replied. "Can il
have come to this in Christian city T'
exclaimed the indignant clergyman. "a
public place, openly advertised, where men
change their wives. / tell you that all
the imps of hell are loose in your city
sir Chicago Journal.
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Life-Saving Apparatus of Reindeer Hair.

a Norwegian engineer, Herr W. c.
Molier, of Drammen, Norway, having had
his attention drawn to the extreme buoy
ancy of reindeer hair, has succeeded in
constructing various articles of this ma
terial for life-saving at sea- with which
some interesting experiments were recently
made. The first life-saving object tried
was one which can be used on board skip,
as chair, bedstead or couch, but which, in
case of need, may be converted into
small boat. This apparatus was found
capable of supporting three full-grown
men in the water, although only intended
to bear two. Another object tried was a
suit made entirely of reindeer hair, and
covering the entire body except the face,
and in which man foated on the water
without having to make the slightest
movement. 1t was found perfectly i'm
possible to dive in the dress. The third
object tried was a door-mat made of rein
deer hair, and this supported man easily,
although he was dressed in full outdoor
clothing. On comparing life belts made of
reindeer hair with similar ones made of
cork, it was found that the former were
much lighter than the latter-a very i'm
portant advantage to an exhausted drown
ing person when ne has to put it on in the
water. Herr Moller's assertion that rein
deer hair is capable of supporting weight
ten times its own was fully borne out by
these experiments. 1t should be pointed
out that jackets, belts, etc, made of rein
deer hair are soft and pliable, and that
they impart a good deal of warmth
London Iron.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
THE MODERN GREEK.
Seen to Best Advantage Not in Athens
But in Constant.nople.

Nobody who has known Athens for long.
or who knows the real resources of the
country of which she is the capital, can be
disappointed with the progress made. Few
cities have improved more during the last
twenty years. The Government has in
troduced compulsory education on most
extensive scale, railroads are being
opened, drainage and the planting of trees
have received great attention, and the
sudden breeze Of patriotism which has
lately passed over Greece and puzzled Eu-
rope will doubtless bear its fruits in greater
unity of purpose. Perhaps the real evil
which, more than anything else, has
checked the progress OF Greece during the
last half century, has been its constitu-
tional Government.
There are many CavourS in Greece.
Tricoupis is a Cavour with English ideas
but, unfortunately, Greece is not ruled
over by Victor Emmanuel, nor has she
yet produced Garibaldi Everybody in
the small kingdom is, as of old, politi-
clan, and the consequence of this is that
ministries rise and fall, and elections take
place with a rapidity which might even
astonish us. The one point on which all
Greeks are agreed and which has been
taught them by late events, is this that if
ever they are to hold their own in the
Balkan Peninsula, they must have more
territory. They crave for the fertile
plains of Epirus and Macedonia, for some
thing that will give them a chance of de-
velopment and the means of existence on
large scale. The place where the Greek
Is seen to the greatest advantage is not
Athens, where mass meetings will one day
cheer for Delyannis and the next for Tri-
coupls, but at Constantinople There he
is, so to speak, on the defensive, living in
the midst of the great destroyer of his race
and freedom. Here his commercial pro-
pensities and industry have brought him
to the fore
The unspeakable Turk" who loves
money, but hates making it as bitterly as
he hates the Greek, who can make it, has
given him in return for money everything
that he asks. This has enabled the Greeks
to attack the Turks with the above-men-
toned weapons of education. Concessions
for Greek schools all over the rotten EN-
pire have been literally bought There is
scarcely a Greek village in Macedonia,
Epirus, the islands and the coast villages
of Asia Minor which has not been sup
piled with schools for both girls and boys,
either through the muniticence of rich
Greeks or through the clerical and moaas-
tic influence which in its day has PLAYED
so valiant part in the conservation of
the Hellenic language and the Christian
religion Fortnightly RerieW.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
A New Treatment for Consumption.

The star of Bergeon's treatment is wan
ming little, new forms of cure for tuber-
cular patients are being found with I'M
abated vigor, and NJ. Garcin comes to the
front with hydrohuroic acid. This new
method consists in placing phthisical
patients for an hour every day in a small
cabinet which contains six cubic meters of
air that is saturated with hydrohuroic
acid. This saturation is obtained by
pumping current of air through a gutta-
percha bottle that contains 100 grams of
the acid to 800 grams of distilled water.
The quantity of air is renewed every fifteen
minutes as the effect is quickly exhausted
The system has been tried for year past
in number of cabinets that NJ Garcin
has had fitted up in room in his own
house, and during the month of August
100 patients were submitted to the treat
ment. OF this number fourteen remained
as before, Il were improved, and 80 were
cured, while 10 died. 1t is stated that I'M
der this form of medication the attacks of
coughing diminish and finally cease. The
Koch bacilli cannot resist this acid, as they
at first are found to diminish in number
and soon they no longer segment; at last
they entirely disappear from the secretions.
The general state of all the patients was
much improved, the appetite was increased,
the night sweats ceased, and some patients
treated over year ago remain well. 1t
seems that the workmen at the celebrated
glass mandatory at Baccaret had first
noticed that the hydrofuoric acid they en-
ployed had good effects on the health
of consumptive persons.-Paris Letter in
New York Medical Journal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
CHILDREN,s PHILOSOPHY.

hope, Johnny" said the Sunday
school teacher to her new scholar, " that
your parents are good Christians ~ " Well,
ma is" replied Johnny, and pa used 10
be; bat ! guess nc IS Il little cut of prac-
tice now
Papa, have you seen that shorty next
door, Yes, Johnny, he's 4 dwarf"
al know, but amt he awinl SHORTY "Ex-
trelneiy SO, my SON." 1t makes me laugh
to hear him say he was raised in this
country-ain't much raise about him, is
thereT'
A little boy, while at play in his fathers
back yard, saw black snake gliding
through the grass. 1t was the first one he
had ever seen. He became greatly eX-
cited over it, and rushed into the house
crying out, Mamma, mamma, there's a
tail out here runnin' along without nothin'
on it."
The new baby had proved itself the pos
SCISSOR of extraordinary vocal powers, and
had exercised them much to Johnny's an
noyance. One day he said to his mother
Ma, little brother came from heaven,
didn't he r. "Yes dear" Johnny was
silent for some time, and then went on
Say, ma" What is it, Johnny ~ 81
don't blame the angels for bouncing him,
do youT
A little girl attended church for the first
time with her older sister During the
sermon he heard the minister mention
the name of God several times, and acted
as if she knew he was doing something
wrong. At last she could stand it no
longer. The next time he said it she rose
up in the seat and, pointing her chubby
finger at him, she said in impressive tones,
Man, top your swearin' ~
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tea to supply its wants, as he thinks
and puts in poker to stir it up in the
shape OF glass of sherry or nip from
the brandy bottle. And yet, all the time,
what his brain is suffering from is not lack
of fuel, but accumulation of ash, and the
more he continues to cram himself with
food and to supply himself with stimu-
lants, although they may help him for the
moment, the worse he ultimately becomes,
just as the child breaking the coal NAV
cause temporary blaze, but allows the fire
all the more quickly to become smothered
in ashes. 1t would seem that vital pro-
cesses are much more readily arrested by
the accumulation of waste products within
the organs of the body than by the want
of nutriment of the organs themselves
DR.. T. Lander Bruaton.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26

mostly boys, big and little. Each holds
wooden stick" with brass rule The
type are all of size; the "stick" is not
| set to the measure of the column, which is
twenty ems plea, but to about half the
measure, it being the business of the other
workmen to impose the lines in columns,
take proof and make up forms. Now, then,
the type-setting. Armed with "sticks"
and rules and copy the dozen compositors
read the last in an earnest, sing song way,
each rushing to some box, far and near, for
the needed letter. then back ten or twelve
feet to the needed one; all are on the
lively move, rushing and skipping to and
fro, right and left, up and down,
chase, balance to partners, swing
the corners, up and back, sing
ing the copy, catching one letter here,
another there, prancing and lodging, hum
ming and skipping promenade cotilion.
Virginia reel, racquet and all hands around
upon the same floor at the same time and
the same dancers in each-a perfect maze
of noise and confusion, vet out of confusion
bringing printed order 1t was a sight TO
be seen. " How many different characters
are there in this case anyhow ?" was asked
our guide. Then our guide asked the
printers, and none could answer better than
say " Nobody knows, sir. Nobody knows
many thousands" Later on we repeated
the same question to a more intelligent
person, who said "At least $4,000" That
will account for the remarkable size of the
case and the racing to and fro of the COM
positors. Just why they intone their copy
all the while was not made 50 clear, other
than the remark that it was the custom
Toxic monopolizes the japanese newspaper
business, there being only one other point
-kofu-in Eastern Japan where news
papers are printed. The masses of the
people are able to read in their own way,
but comparatively few can grasp the full
flow of Chinese characters. In point of
illiteracy the statistics place this nation at
only per cent, or next to Bavaria, which
is the lowest on the list.-PdH Nal Ga
zey}5
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
LIFE ON THE FARM.

At the foot of the hill the milk house stands,
Where the Balm of Gilead spreads its hands,
And the wi low trails at each pendent tip
The lazy lash OF golden whip.
And an lce-cold spring with tinkling sound
Makes a bright green edge for the dark-greeI
ground
Cool as a cave is the air within,
Brave are the shelves with the FURNISHED tin
OF the curving shores, and tie seas of white
That turn to gold in a single night
AS if the disk of a winter moon
Should take the tint of new doubloon
Burned to a coal is the amber day,
Moons splendid fire has died away,
And lodged on the edge of world grass-grown
Like a great live ember glows the sun /;
When il falls behind the crimson bars
Look out for the sparks of the early stars.
With the clang of her bell a motherly brown
No trace of her lineage handed down
Is leading the long, deliberate line
OF the Devons red ana the Durhams fine;
Co-boss y " Co-boss o. and the caravan
With dowager swing comes down the lane,
And lowing along from the clover bed
Troops over the bars with a numbering tread
Under the lee of the patient beasts,
On their tripod stools like Pythian priests
The tow-clad boys and the linsey girls
Make the cows give down" in milky swirls
There's stormy time in the drifted pals,
There's a sea-ioam swath in the driving gales,
Then boys and girls with whistle and song,
Two pals apiece meander along
The winding path III the golden gloom,
And set" the milk in the twilight-room
Toronto Truth
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
Disorder of Digestion.

All the vital functions are more or less
processes of combustion, and they are sub
iect to laws similar 10 those which regulate
the burning of coal in our frepiaces. The
reason why we allow our fires to burn low
or go out altogether is that We put on too
much coal or that we allow them to be
smothered in asaes 1t is the child who
pokes the fire from the top to break the
coal and make it burn faster; the wise
man pokes il from below, SO as to rake out
the ashes md allow free access of oxygen.
And so 4 is with the functions of life, only
that these being less understood, many a
mar. acts in regard to them as a child
does to the fire. The man thinks that his
brain is not acting because he has not
supplied it with sufficient food. He
takes meat three times a day and beef
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her young, of course milk is one of the best
articles at our command. When weaned
the pigs may get, say two parts of milk by
weight, one part of shorts and one part OF
corn-meal. A run on good clover would
go far to make good frame. When near
ing maturity the ration can be changed
more and more to the carbonaceous, and
for the last two months, when fattening,
the feed can be largely corn, if for fat
pork, but if lean, juicy meat is desired, the
musele-rnaking foods must be continued.
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Txpe-Setting In Japan.

The office of the Nichi Nichi Shin6un, a
japanese newspaper, is thus described:
The features of the Shinbun office was its
iype-case-for there was only one body of
type. And such a type-casel 1t is di-
yided, for utility, into two sections. sloping
toward an alley two feet wide. Each sec
ton is four feet wide by thirty feet long
four by sixty feet. There's new case for
YOU! This is divided into small compart-
ments or boxes, into which the type is laid
in regular piles, several piles in box,
with faces all toward the compositors,